The Vaudreuil-Soulanges health network scored high marks during an accreditation process carried out this past spring, according to a recently released report.

All the facilities under the former CSSS Vaudreuil-Soulanges agency, which are now part of the reorganized Centre intégré de santé et de services sociaux (CISSS) de la Montérégie-Ouest, were approved with honours by Accreditation Canada after visits made in mid-April.

The facilities in question included the CLSC and ambulatory services centre in Vaudreuil-Dorion, the CLSCs in Coteau-du-Lac, Rigaud and St-Polycarpe, the Centre d’hébergement de Vaudreuil-Dorion and the Centre d’hébergement Laurent-Bergevin in Île-Perrot.

These facilities received a 96.5 per cent compliance rate by Accreditation Canada, an improvement over the 92 per cent compliance rate awarded in 2011.

Officials at the reorganized health agency plan to use the new distinction rating to keep working to improve the quality of services.

A summary report also noted the network is known for being underfunded based on the actual demand for services from the region’s population and it encouraged Vaudreuil-Soulanges officials to continue efforts to construct a hospital in the region.

Earlier this year, a Health Ministry spokeswoman told The Montreal Gazette the long awaited Vaudreuil-Soulanges regional hospital is still a project being mapped out and that various phases of the planning process are proceeding normally.

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